An air strike; believed to be American, has destroyed the Al-Andalus radio station; the main media platform for Somalia’s al-Shabab group in the city of Jilib in Middle Juba region, south of the country.

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to attend peace talks in Sweden “shortly”, according to the United Nations special envoy to the country, who said he was willing to accompany the Houthi delegation from Sanaa if necessary.

By imposing a new round of sanctions against Iran, the United States is now seeking the policy of maximizing pressures on the Islamic Republic to break its resistance in the international arena. However, on the one hand Iranian officials emphasize the country will continue to grow despite the sanctions and on the other hand, experts express doubt over the real impacts of sanctions.

A Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after take off from the capital on its way to the country’s tin-mining hub, officials said.

Reacting to the violent terrorist attack in Ahvaz that resulted in the death of dozens of Iranian soldiers and civilians, high-ranking Iranian authorities vow to take revenge from the terrorists and to eradicate the threats against the country.

India will likely tell the US that it won’t be able to cut oil imports from Iran after sanctions take effect early November and hopes to “sensitise’’ Washington to the issues faced by the country in this regard, while making it clear that no nation can dictate how its external policy can be run.

Brazil’s embattled former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the front-runner in the country’s election, will be struck from the ballot, an electoral court ruled on Friday, reshaping Brazil’s election one month before voters cast their ballots.

In April, on the 69th anniversary of the founding of China’s navy, the country’s first domestically built aircraft carrier stirred from its berth in the port city of Dalian on the Bohai Sea, tethered to tugboats for a test of its seaworthiness.

Being under heavy criticism over the unfavorable economic situation of the country, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani went to the parliament today to answer the questions raised by the MPs. Voting results after his speech shows that the MP’s have not been convinced by the president’s answers.

As the bloody civil war in Syria is coming to an end with the Syrian army retaking most parts of the country from the rebel and terrorist groups, Tehran is upgrading its support for Damascus to start the post-war reconstruction process.

As the Syrian army continues its advances against the rebel and terrorist groups in different parts of the country, foreign supporters of the rebels seem to be preparing for an excuse to hinder the advances. Moscow believes that the Western countries are once again about to manufacture a “chemical scenario” for this purpose.